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Golf Random Irritations

I think maybe someone should put on here.

The R&A for not setting up full rules to govern Texas Scrambles and all other forms of club golf.
 
the amount of people who had been in a bunker at Tain yesterday and not raked it, one bunker looked like it had 3 different people in, none of them had bothered to rake
 
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Went into a pro shop over the weekend & saw a nice golf top, good colour, course name embroidered etc, looked at the price and near died... £250! On what planet is that a fair price (they had a leather holdall as well, just for change of clothes/shoes etc... wait for it... £800) just no!
 
Slab said:
Went into a pro shop over the weekend & saw a nice golf top, good colour, course name embroidered etc, looked at the price and near died... £250! On what planet is that a fair price (they had a leather holdall as well, just for change of clothes/shoes etc... wait for it... £800) just no!
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Was it woven with gold leaf and have a diamond encrusted collar? Or does it make you amazing at golf?
 
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murphthemog said:
Combining greens that are 12.2 on a stimp with really stupid pin positions. I like fast greens, but the pins have to be sensible. Sadly, at the weekend a few of ours weren't. Pins that are on a ridge, so it is impossible to lag putt, you either hole it, or it runs 15 foot past, and off the green.
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The #*#*ing 17th green at Macdonald Hill Valley in Shropshire !!! Putted from about 10 feet and it missed the hole by about an inch, then "stopped" 4 inches past. Then took another half turn and continued to roll 20ft & off the green. (There was a EuroPro event on the following day - can't think they'd have been very pleased with it.)
 
The pins on the Derby Course at The Belfry were like that on Saturday. There were a couple of pins that were just unfair. If you missed the hole, even if you went passed it, it would roll back down the hill and almost off the green, it was mental.
 
Dan2501 said:
The pins on the Derby Course at The Belfry were like that on Saturday. There were a couple of pins that were just unfair. If you missed the hole, even if you went passed it, it would roll back down the hill and almost off the green, it was mental.
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I played West Surrey on Saturday in a club match, and both my opponent and I putted off the green on seperate holes whilst trying to lag putts up to the pin (which were in ridiculous positions given the conditions).

Perhaps greenkeepers were caught out by some dry weather and hadn't picked appropriate pin positions.
 
Orikoru said:
And then putt it straight off the green a second time? No thanks.
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Then just take another unplayable. Rinse and repeat before ultimately chasing after it like Phil Mickelson. (y)

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Slab said:
Could be the lesser of two evils unless you're dam confident of getting an up and down from off the green (& at least you know how hard not to hit the putt 2nd time round)
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Honestly, I would never think of it in the heat of the moment I don't think. I'd just angrily slap the next one back up onto the green. Or pick up and move on.
 
Orikoru said:
Honestly, I would never think of it in the heat of the moment I don't think. I'd just angrily slap the next one back up onto the green. Or pick up and move on.
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That's basically me too, but one day I hope to remember about it and watch the other players have a fit when you tell them what you're doing :sneaky:
 
Slab said:
Re putting off green etc

Anyone use the unplayable rule and take the putt again under stroke and distance pen?
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I didn't, and failed to up and down - a 5 from a GIR on a par 3!

I would have made the same score had I taken an unplayable (at best! I was never holing it in a million years... a 2 putt would have been a good one given the pin position and green speed/slope).
 
Taking 3 weeks to get a Supplementary card processed only to realise that the SSS from the yellows is 2 under par not 1 as I previously thought so my 38 pointer doesn't get me a cut....:mad::rolleyes:
 
Imurg said:
Taking 3 weeks to get a Supplementary card processed only to realise that the SSS from the yellows is 2 under par not 1 as I previously thought so my 38 pointer doesn't get me a cut....:mad::rolleyes:
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🤣ours is 3 and my mates think I'm rory on a Sunday as they never play off off the whites and I've been tearing up the yellows lately
 
Slab said:
Anyone use the unplayable rule and take the putt again under stroke and distance pen?
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Club Championship (so the greens had been tricked up to insane speeds) last year - shortly after the Mickelson incident, so the options were fresh in my mind.
About a 6ft putt. Shaved the hole and the ball ran all the way down the apron and way off the green.
"That's unplayable, I'm taking S+D" says I.
Put down another ball and proceeded to do exactly the same thing.
Put down another ball and finally holed the putt.
Ended up with a 9. On a par 3. (It had already taken me 4 to get on the green - I was having a bad day).
Someone else scored 13 on that hole.
A mate of mine hit the green with his tee shot and ended up with an 8.

Greens should be fast, or have big slopes, or tricky pin positions. But all three together is taking the p***.
 
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